Wilson’s latest book – Big Name Hunting (December 2010) – was his first non-skiing book. It chronicles his other career as a show-biz writer, and includes interviews with Spike Milligan, Sir David Lean, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Terry Wogan, Bo Derek, William Shatner, Dudley Moore, Eric Morecambe, Buzz Aldrin, Sir Stirling Moss, Brian Johnston, Jack Hawkins, Sir Ranulph Fiennes and many others. As well as writing occasional ski features for the FT, Wilsoncontributes to Country Life, Conde Nast Traveller, various in-flight magazines and was a regular contributor to the former Good Skiing and Snowboarding Guide. He is also a major contributor to the Ultimate-ski.com website. In 1998, he presented a 10-minute TV report on Aspen’s notorious 24 Hours ski race, featuring Martin and Graham Bell, for the BBC's Ski Sunday programme. He and his Swedish wife, Vivianne - who were married on the mountain at Wilson’s favourite ski resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 2000 - live in West Sussex, England.

One of the most rewarding and even surreal aspects of writing about skiing is the chance of meeting, befriending and even skiing with some of the greatest Olympic skiers in the world. "Some things money can't buy" says Wilson. "It has been a truly extraordinary privilege to have shared the slopes with the likes of Konrad Bartelski, Steve Podborski, Graham and Martin Bell, Stein Eriksen, Nancy Greene, Franz Klammer, Hermann Maier, Tommy Moe, Bill Johnson, Ken Read and Picabo Street."